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Note this is not about whether the meme was any good or not. Most appealed to enough people in the first place to become memes. It's just that some aren't looked on too fondly after the fact. Until and unless the Nostalgia Filter kicks in, some of these memes are forgotten or even hated. A meme appearing on any of the old media is generally considered its dying breath, at least to the internet-at-large.

Now the internet allows memes to propagate faster than ever, but then get discredited faster than ever, usually thanks to the repetition reason.

This can also use Hypocritical Humor, with someone complaining about a meme, but in the form of the meme.

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Since nearly every meme gets discredited to at least some degree over time, In-Universe and Creator-Acknowledged Examples Only.

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A Geico commercial mocks how one of their own running gags (the "Hump Day" camel) has gotten so overused and exposed that it's not funny anymore. It demonstrates this by depicting a pair of exasperated camels getting the notorious Hump Day line shouted at them over and over again by obnoxious zoo-goers.

HeadOn, I hate your commercials, but your product really works! This was after a repetitive Head On! Apply directly to the forehead! was an ad that ran on almost every Game Show or local news program and was considered extremely annoying.

Christopher Knight's first ad when he went for school board (for the Rockingham County Board of Education in 2006) became viral for the wrong reason. A week and a half after the ad aired, he made a more serious "library talk" and then an ad he was proud of a week before election rolled in (he only placed at 8th out of 16).

Comic Books

An issue of Sonic Universe has a very annoyed Silver telling Original Character Gold the Tenrac that he's "getting really sick of people saying 'It's No Use'." In context, it seemed that everyone was using that phrase to tell Silver to give up; readers have also taken it as a stealth Take That! towards Silver's repeated phrase from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)

First Caveman: Why chicken cross road? Yuk yuk Second Caveman: Hmph. That one old already.

The Wicked + The Divine had "Fucking Tara" in reference to how the protagonist Laura referenced Pantheon member Tara and the various complaints we heard about her from other people in the story. Issue 13 is Tara's spotlight issue, and shows she became hated for trying to be recognized for her own talents instead of the insta-rave powers the gods have, to the point where "Fucking Tara" is one of the nicer things said about her when compared to the rape and death threats, and the harassment and hate eventually makes her commit suicide after which the meme died very fast.

At one of his concerts, Dave Chappelle finally chewed out fans for endlessly repeating "I'm Rick James, Bitch!" from Chappelle's Show. At one point someone came up to him and said it while he was at Disneyland with his family! This is one of the bigger reasons for his Creator Breakdown.

Chappelle: Would you please not call me bitch in front of my kids?

Fan Works

Sophistication and Betrayal has the protagonist comment on the tendency for people to mock Twilight whenever sparkling is mentioned, and opines that it "stopped being funny two years ago".

The infamous MinecraftCreepypastaHerobrine has been deemed not-scary and way overused by many creepypasta community members, and, in spite of Notch's recurring mentions of the ghostly NPC (including an explicit statement that it's fake, which may have also contributed to the popularity downfall), Notch's ex-wife ezchili made this tweet regarding the character's overbearing prominence, a statement with which a good amount of members of both communities seem to agree.

In a moment of Self-Deprecation, he discredited his "Card Games on Motorcycles" meme by having Lector destroy it in order to demonstrate Jinzo's special ability. Lector then laughs and says "I've been waiting a whole year for that!"

He promoted the possibility of a Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Abridged for charity and specifically said that it won't involve the phrase.

This episode features Jack trying to find a new catchphrase. He's told that his paycheck will be doubled if he never says the old one again.

Hellsing Ultimate Abridged: As a walking, talking caricature of the stereotypical Tumblr user, Rip Van Winkle spouts those like there's no tomorrow.

Rip Van Winkle: Ze Game~! Commander Violet: What game? Rip Van Winkle: You lose! Lol I so random! (later...) (Rip Van Winkle sings the infamous Rickroll) Millennium Officer 1: The hell is she singing now? Millennium Officer 2: I have no idea. I think it was popular a couple years back. Millennium Soldier: At least she's no longer going on about the ponies and the friendship and the wrapping up of winter!

Anyone who's been in a LARP group knows that inevitably a newcomer to the group will quote the movie. The stigma isn't just that Holy Grail has been quoted to death, it's the fact that no matter how taboo it is, once one person quotes it everyone in the group will begin doing so as well. Including the ones that were just whining about someone having started it.

Fans would constantly ask John Cleese to do "silly walks", which he outright refused. Particularly since that's not the point of the scene. And the fact that due to age, he's no longer capable of doing the silly walk anymore.

The Princess Bride sees elements of this in LARP and fencing groups as well. We all love the movie, everyone knows the lines, but please don't say it. And then one person does anyway and the rest of the gang is at it as a bunch of chattering parrots.

United States Navy really hates it when its staff and trainees reference Top Gun. Currently, United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (formerly known as TOPGUN) would fine anyone who quotes or references this movie. Anyone caught singing "Danger Zone" in an F-14 is considered a hostile and ejected pilots who sing "Take My Breath Away" are to be shot at (supposedly). Considering the F-14 has been retired from service due to wear on the airframe, it's likely moot at this point.

Avengers: Infinity War had a lot of fans hoping there'd be a "No shit, Sherlock" joke, in reference to both Robert Downey Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch having both played Sherlock. The directors refused, saying it'd be too obvious of a joke and Cumberbatch thinks such a joke would be too corny.

The cast members from Black Panther (2018) are getting fed up of doing the Wakandan salute. Michael B. Jordan (whose character never performs the action in the film in the first place)refused to entertain it, whereas the main star Chadwick Boseman is getting tired of doing it at fans' requests, as shown by his increasingly deflated looking expression in each of those photos. Jordan also (somewhat) jokingly told the crowd at the 2018 MTV Movie Awards to stop requesting cast members to say "Wakanda Forever".

Live-Action TV

A running joke in one episode of How I Met Your Mother is that immediately after an exchange like this...

Barney: By the way guys, this is Lisa. You'll be seeing a lot more of Lisa. (closes the door) And they never saw her again. Whassup!!!

...Barney, when asked to envision his life in three years, would describe the exact same thing happening with a different girl. This would then come to pass three years later. After describing 2009 in this manner:

Ted: Seriously? Please tell me you will at least change what will then be a nine-year-old beer commercial reference.

An In-universe example from Seinfeld: Jerry (Seinfeld) jokes about his current girlfriend's belly as if it speaks in a funny voice. She tells him he has to choose between the joke or her. He chooses the joke, only to find out his friends think the voice is 'played out'. He quickly reconciles with the girlfriend.

Quotes from The Inbetweeners became so memetic in the UK that one of the lead actors, Simon Bird, got sick of them before the series ended its run.

Things gameshow audiences do not do: Shout out quotes from The Inbetweeners such as: Clunge. Bus Wankers. Football Friend. Right, that's all you're getting.

The entire concept is embodied in a The Man Show sketch of their "Museum of Annoying Guys" (faux Latinate name: "Jokus Repeatus Shut the F Up-us"). "It's the beat a Catch-Phrase to death guy."

In an early episode of Community Jeff takes a pottery class. One of the first rules the teacher imposes is that due to somebody in class always referencing the scene from Ghost (1990), nobody is allowed to do it anymore. Likewise, a similar gag happens at the end of the episode's B-plot, where Shirley and Pierce's boating class instructor reveals nobody is allowed to go to the mast and yell out "I'm the king of the world!" from Titanic when Pierce attempts do so.

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Wil Wheaton has joked that people have put their kids through college with how much money the fans made selling homemade t-shirts emblazoned with "Shut up, Wesley!". However, in 2016, Wil said that he insta-bans people who write "Shut up, Wesley!" to him on Twitter, even if it's in jest.

An episode of The Big Bang Theory has the boys taking up fencing for exercise. Though warned it's a serious sport and to take it seriously, Raj and Howard immediately start acting out the dialog from Inigo Montoya.

Music

A pet hate for Hawkwind are gig-attenders who loudly and continually demand their 1972 hit Silver Machine. The band are keen to point out that while that might have been their only single hit and concede that it was a good song, they have done a lot of other stuff since, and they'd quite like to play a few of those, if you don't mind. Hawkwind has even used a set of parody lyrics about a washing machine to get it out of the way and to point out the song belongs a long way in their past, when the vast majority of current band members weren't even there.

"Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day spawned a meme where the internet community joked about "waking Green Day up" come October 1. Green Day has pointed out the insensitivity of this meme; the song is about Billie Joe Armstrong losing his father at the age of 10 and how he coped with the death by locking himself in his room and telling his mother he won't come out until the end of September. It came to the point where Green Day had to tell fans to stop doing it.

Wikipedia had to contend with an influx of "Weird Al" Yankovic fans when his music video for "White & Nerdy" had him replacing the text to its Atlantic Records page with "YOU SUCK!" in large print. This led to Wikipedia locking the page with the policy of IP banishment if one changes it to Al's entry.

Linkin Park suffered a reputation for two decades for being the epitome of emo rock Wangst over very petty issues. Then its frontman Chester Bennington died of suicide, proving that his emotional issues had been completely genuine all along and making it impossible to ever joke about the band this way again.

Ben Folds stopped doing his live cover of Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit" because he didn't appreciate people yelling the title at him while he was out with his kids.

The game took a potshot at one of its own memes during the two-year anniversary celebration. Previously a lot of newbies got confused about where to find Captain Sulu, leading to "Where's Sulu?" meme. During the celebration, you could ask Q Junior where Sulu was, and he would complain about your use of an ancient meme.

They took another potshot at "KURLAND HERE", which had players driven up the wall when the aforementioned (James) Kurland would constantly pop up and utter "KURLAND HERE". His voice actor, dev Jeremy "Borticus" Randall added it to his forum signature and has gone on to mention that it wasn't his best.

When the second expansion, Delta Rising, dropped, players took satirical glee in attacking a number of statements made by the devs and then-Executive Producer Stephen D'Angelo, the most noticeable one being "Delta Rising is the BEST Expansion ever and the players LOVE it!" (the statement was even taken out of context). At least one dev has spoken up about it and the players at r/sto will most likely downvote you to oblivion if you post anything like that.

Portal's The Cake Is a Lie meme got discredited by the time the sequel rolled around, through massive overuse. The following media has mentioned that:

Gamesradar was one of the first to declare this, and Valve agreed, stating in commentaries and interviews that they were so sick of it that they excluded it from Portal 2 for that very reason. They were unable to help themselves entirely, however, as there are two specific references in the game. One is in Rattman's mural depicting Chell's victory over GLaDOS and the other is Shmuck Bait that serves as a Take That! from both GLaDOS to Chell and Valve to the player. There's also a bit of binary code in Chell's file in the "Lab Rat" tie-in comic that translates to "the cake is a lie".

Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation is similarly heartily sick of The Cake Is a Lie meme. He generally refers to it as "a Portal reference," but it's always the same one. He's so sick of it that he completely trashed Castlevania: Lords of Shadow just for containing the reference (in spite ofothergivenreasons) long after the meme had stopped being funny. He also bashes anyone who dares to use the cake reference in their Web Comic for the same reason: "And if that doesn't work then just go on about the cake being a lie."

Yahtzee:Castlevania: Lords of Shadow contains a Portal reference. That is literally all you need to know. It's attempting to jump on a bandwagon so late that the band has completed three sell-out world tours and sold their wagon to a scrap dealer. It's not even a clever reference, a note found on a dead character ends with the words "the cake is a lie". There's no contextual sense, it's just thrown in there like a random zombie wearing Groucho Marx glasses. [...] If a game has a Portal reference, whatever purpose it serves, it tells you everything you need to know about the absolute wankers who had creative control of the thing.

In thisxkcd strip (from 2009), the downside to buying games on a five-year lag is that in 2013 you'll suddenly break out in Portal memes.

In the Portalreveal trailer for LEGO Dimensions, Gandalf requests to GLaDOS that they (they being he, Wyldstyle and Batman) wants to buy a cake, the AI responding exasperatingly "Why do they always want the cake?"note Subverted because the cake is actually one of the MacGuffins in the game. Also, GLaDOS claims she's made a "real cake" in the ending credits.

In Poker Night 2, if the player wins GLaDOS' bounty item, she says, "I hope you weren't expecting baked desserts because I don't do that anymore."

There's a mod for the game such that any time a guard says that line, they get struck dead by a bolt of lightning. Thankfully, the guards respawn, so this doesn't leave Skyrim undefended.

Kingdom Hearts III's first few trailers infamously claimed the game to be "Now In Development" to the point that the fanbase was joking about the absurdly long development time, and it didn't help that it was more than a decade since Kingdom Hearts II came out. However, the D23 2017 trailer dropped and discredited the meme by revealing a release date of 2018.

YandereDev, the developer of Yandere Simulator has gotten tired of the "WHOA TECHNOLOGY!" meme that went viral after a video he released in mid-January 2017. The reason he said that in the first place was because he was amazed that the developers of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty put in the time and effort to program a minor detail like ice cubes melting in real time. It has gotten to the point that he has banned people from his Twitch streams for saying it.

Downplayed in Dragon Age: Inquisition: As soon as the game was announced, the inevitable Spanish Inquisition memes began to sprout among the fans. However, Bioware came out and said that during the developing process they made so of these jokes they grew tired of the reference. They still managed to sneak in some subtle ones such as a scout reporting to the Inquisitor party when entering Redcliff that "they weren't expecting us" or when a Drill Sergeant Nasty asks the recruits what is the Inquisition's main weapons and one of them replies "Surprise and fear".

On Sonic for Hire, Sonic goes back in time to try to make sure that he doesn't squander his money. The event that he goes back to is when he and Knuckles battle Robotnik at the Death Egg Zone. Since the battle takes place in the 90s, Knuckles says a bunch of '90s lingo. Sonic gets really annoyed by it and quickly tells him "Now the novelty's worn off" when Knuckles says "Don't go there beyotch!"

Lampshaded in The Frollo Show among some of Hell's rules. (Ironic for that last one as Gwonam appears as a major antagonist of the series.)

It didn't take very long after the end of RWBY Volume 3 for Black Comedy jokes about Yang losing an arm to induce more groaning than laughter, due to sheer overuse. It had become so widespread that the Volume 4 finale's end credits song is a 5-minute long example of this, titled Armed and Ready.

Web Comics

In Knights of Buena Vista, Walter has an "overused reference jar", which he treats more seriously than the swear jar.

In this strip, Star Wars (specifically "May the Force be with you") is quoted for the last time.

According to Dork Tower, a meme is 'officially' dead whenever Matt Groening adopts it. The case in point that led to this observation was "All your base are belong to us!"

Nodwick drove the new swearword "krutz" out of fashion by getting henchmen to adopt it en masse. A good thing, as a group of villains had created the new swearword as a means of accumulating mystical power.

In his comic book Boy's Club, Matt Furie killed off Pepe the Frog (who had outstripped the comic in popularity via Pop-Cultural Osmosis) after various far-right factions in Real Life adopted the character as their emblem.

Web Original

Images with Impact Front captions on top & bottom of it were so often used in memes when people started to become familiar with the current usage of them that many think that they are simply an image with a snowclone caption. Complicit in this are the dozens of sites designed for creating and/or sharing said pictures, which always describe them as such (even Frinkiac has a "Make a meme" button).

SF Debris started his review of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "In the Pale Moonlight" by playing the clip of Senator Vreenak saying "It's a FAAAAAAAAAKE!", then saying "There, you got that out of your system?"

KnowYourMeme, a website dedicated to... well, memes, has an upcoming dictionary term called "The Family Guy Effect." To wit: "when Internet memes are showcased on the animated television show Family Guy, the meme will see a brief burst in popularity, followed by an immediate sharp decline." Oddly enough, their use of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" may have been too early (depending on how long episodes take to produce) to have been a reference to Rickrolling.

This very page gets a mention — hi there! note Oddly enough, while we list November 7th, 2008 as the creation date of this page, Know Your Meme gives a date of August 27, 2010.

"[X character] is a time lord!" shows up on every single WMG page, as if it's part of the template.

The trend of predicting a post number ending in doubles on 4chan got old to mods rather sooner than it did to posters. On boards such as /b/ and /v/, the final three digits of the post number were blocked out by X's as to make it harder to ascertain whether doubles were achieved (and to prevent the server from crashing so badly the next time the board hit another hundred million posts). When this did not hinder posters attempting to predict their post number, over the years it was removed. In another zig-zag, the mods eventually got so fed up with /v/ and /vg/'s dubs that every post that would have ended in the last two numbers matching skipped to the nearest set of numbers that didn't. It seemed to have finally worked...until browsers began predicting the final number of their post only. While the meme died down a bit, it's still common to watch anons try to get to secure their post ends in a number, especially with those that repeat themselves more than 5 times.

On Two Best Friends Play, Matt and/or Pat tend to get sick of any of their running gags that catch on as fandom memes. In particular, after people started posting "[X] is the Origami Killer!" under every video they uploaded, Matt said that the joke was no longer funny.

The Critic admitted in his Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog review that his use of M. Bison exclaiming, "Of course!" in response to world domination plans was no longer funny. The clip has made a handful of NC-related appearances since then, but the buildup in each instance deviated from that past reviews (NC simply saying, "He has an evil plan to, you guessed it, take over the world") in order to make the gag less stale (eg, a character announces world domination plans himself, NC notices a character looks like M. Bison, or someone says "Of course").

In the commentary for the same video, he mentioned that he did not include the infamous "bad touch" clip because of this trope while mentioning that it was good advice and that it was pretty bold of the show to make it.

He ran out of Lord of the Rings jokes during the Star Trek Generations review.

He also stated on his commentary for "Top 11 Batman the Animated Series Episodes" that he's really gotten sick of the "Bat-Credit Card" joke, to the point where if someone says it to him at a convention, he'll only respond once. Luckily, with enough reasoning to actually justify the Bat-Credit Card's existence, it seems that Linkara has successfully killed it since 2016.

On his "Christmas with the Kranks" review, he discredits almost all his memes (including Of Course, That's a lot of Fish, Elephant...)

When Doug and Rob do real thoughts on older reviews, they'll usually complain about a meme they got tired of, like "timing", "of course" and Rob's Goldblum impressions.

For an omnipresent meme, numerous sites have rules about not saying "First" in comments.

Fark has turned it into a new meme: its filter replaces "first (to) post" with "Boobies" and "first comment" with "Weeners", and if the post actually was first, adds twelve hours to its time stamp, thus pretty much guaranteeing it will be the minimum post (last post in Fark filter).

The Escapist, home of Zero Punctuation has a rule that comments in a thread about one of Yahtzee's videos are automatically deleted if they appear less than X minutes after the video is posted (X being the length of the video itself).

About two-thirds of the way through DM of the Rings, author Shamus Young started preemptively posting "first" in various snarky ways (e.g. an image of Steven Furst).

ScrewAttack has made a clip of the week stating to stop this or a "first monster" will come and delete the post.

The creators of Marble Hornets have said that they are sick of the "Gimme 20 Dollars" joke (which in their opinion bordered on a Forced Meme when it was new).

Dragon Ball Z Abridged referenced the "over 9000" meme by having a bored Vegeta say the line (and this is after he ended up having his scouter on upside down and reading the power level as 1006, leading to Goku kicking Nappa's ass) and Nappa being disappointed by it. A later video celebrating Team Four Star's YouTube account passing 9000 subscribers did it again, with Vegeta using the original "Over 8000" line with an annoyed Nappa telling him he didn't do it right.

Referencing the meme at all is a bannable offense on the Unfiction forums.

Zany VG Quotes'sZero Wing page says, "It's dead, Jim," and has a link to the infamous intro that simply says "Oh hell, you already know what this one is." At one point there was a snarky comment about it being time to stop wearing the AYB t-shirts and repeating it all the time. Notable because the entire All Your Base fad can be traced back to a Zany VG project.

Chuggaaconroy has completely disavowed Steve the Trooper, a red leaf Pikmin. Originally a throwaway gag, as Chugga often names characters, the fans picked up Steve and made fanart, videos, Facebook pages, and more. Throughout his Pikmin 2Let's Play, he has specifically avoided the name Steve, sometimes stating "You know what that Pikmin's name is". Still, this being YouTube, most comments on his videos relate to Steve in some way. And then when Pikmin 3 was announced, all the trailers were flooded with "Steve" comments, this actually caused a large amount of ire to be turned on Chuggaa, despite his attempts to make the joke die.

Whenever RedLetterMedia introduced a new series or person on their channel, people would always ask if the new one was replacing an old one. This blew up into becoming a Mad Libs meme, with people asking "Is X replacing Y?" for everything. When this happened again with their new Plinketto show, host Rich Evans called them out.

Rich: Hi! And welcome to the least creative comments section on YouTube! Check it out! (points to comments section below video) That's the same shit they've been saying for five years. Mike: Is this comments section replacing the Plinketto board? Rich: Is the Plinketto board replacing the comments section? Is Jay replacing Susan? Is Josh replacing the Plinketto board? Is Star Wars replacing Rich Evans? (to the camera) IT'S NOT FUNNY! STOP!

Jontron takes a shot at the "Marioon Mushrooms" joke, at first merely labeling it "OBLIGATORY MUSHROOM JOKE" in big rainbow letters. He then goes a step further by dressing as Luigi "struggling" with his mushroom problem, throwing away his bag of mushrooms, and ending on a message about how Mario mushroom jokes kill 6 million a year and to help find the cure.

CallMeKevin: Ah, another masterpiece! Leaves ya on a bit of a cliffhanger, like "did he kill the guy who said 'Bore: Ragnarok'? Is 'Bore: Ragnarok' funny?" Who knows, at this point? Most likely, no! *laughs*

YouTuber Dan Howell has had several weird jokes and images associated with his content note Such as llamas, weird mentions of placenta, chef Delia Smith, his memetic love for Maltesers, etc., which he originally played up. However, in 2016, he decided to rebrand, dropping the old username "danisnotonfire" for myriad reasons and officially declaring the jokes to no longer represent him or his content. He's aware that people will still know him as "danisnotonfire" (including this very wiki), but he wanted to make an official change.

Vinny from Vinesauce has pretty much gotten sick of memes in general, but he has a particular distaste for people who still think "It's Hip to Fuck Bees" is funny.

In one early installment of Google Translate Sings, the lyrics to the song "Shape of You" suddenly translate the lyrics "Come on, be my baby, come on" as "gradually watermelon", becoming a meme overnight. However, after a few run-ins with the meme, by the time of "Google Translate Makes Dinner *FAIL*", the word "gradually" causes the series creator Malinda to look at the camera with the word "Don't." hovering beside her.

On Danny Phantom, Danny makes a joke about "Who let the dogs in!", obviously in reference to Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out" song that was everywhere during the early 2000s. He briefly tries to explain the joke while his friends just look at him like he's an idiot.

In "Simpson Tide", Bart sings a short ditty of his 90s Ear Worm song "Do the Bartman" - even Ralph Wiggum comments "That is so 1991!"

Likewise, in "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star", when Bart goes to a Catholic school, he introduces himself by rattling off one of his old catchphrases ("I'm Bart Simpson, who the hell are you,") in a very bored voice, ending in saying "yadda-yadda-yadda."

Also in "Bart Gets Famous" when Bart briefly gains 15 Minutes of Fame on the Krusty the Klown Show as the 'I Didn't Do It Boy'.

By about season 5 or so, it seemed they could only use "Ay caramba," "Don't have a cow, man," and "Eat my shorts" if they were making fun of them.

Mentioned in the episode "Skinner's Sense of Snow", where Bart found his permanent record: "'Underachiever and proud of it.' How old is this thing?"

Lampshaded in the "Treehouse of Horror VI" story "Attack of the 50 Foot Eyesores", as giant advertising mascots running amok. The solution was to start ignoring them as ads go away if no one watches them. "Like that old woman who couldn't find the beef?'" Lisa observes.

In "The Blunder Years", when the Simpsons family tries to find out why Homer cannot stop screaming after being hypnotized, Homer starts flashing back to his greatest moment: the clip of Homer (almost) jumping across Springfield Gorge in "Bart the Daredevil", when Lisa interrupts him, saying "Everybody's sick of that memory!"

The beginning of "Gump Roast" has Homer parodying the opening of Forrest Gump when Chief Wiggum informs him that Springfield Police has been cracking down on people imitating movie characters, as Moe is immediately arrested after imitating Austin Powers.

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